Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
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… and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their mind on earthly things. They're in hot pursuit of stuff that blesses their life at your expense. Paul says, watch out for them. In 1 Peter chapter 5, 1 Peter 5 verse 8, stay alert, watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him and be strong in your faith. Remember that your family of believers all over the world is going through the same kind of suffering that you are. Watch out. Be wise. The enemy wants to destroy your life. And finally, we end with this. We're going to make it. It's verse 13. And let life in. Let life in. You say, that's kind of a weird thing. No, it's not a weird thing. Let life in. Right now, 250 of our high schoolers are up at camp right now. We're all praying, God, have for each of them a moment of encountering you. Listen, would you want to be a teenager in this world? …
They become callous, being past feeling. You know, Paul says in Philippians 3.19, their glory is in their shame. Can you imagine? Yeah, you can. People parade their shame. That's what pornography is. That's what pride does, blatant, boastful, arrogant, brash pride. Unconverted people are selfish, they are senseless, they are shameless. And then he says also they are sensual. They literally deliver themselves over, a very familiar verb, deliver themselves over, hand themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. They are impure, and they can't be satiated. They can't be satisfied. Practice by the way is a term, ergossia, used to mean business, turning yourself over to the business of impurity, big business. Pleonexia, insatiable, craving, uncontrolled appetite. That's a picture of the people who haven't learned Christ. That's a picture of those who are described in 1 John 3 as the children of the devil. But it's not true of us. We have been transformed. We learned Christ. Verse 22, in reference to your former manner of life, it's gone. …
So you heard the gospel lesson. Jesus' lament over Jerusalem is one of the saddest stories in any of the gospels. Right up there with him weeping over the death of his dear friend Lazarus. Or rearing back when Judas leans toward him on the night of his arrest. Judas, is it with a kiss that you betray the Son of Man? There is such sorrow in these stories, such crushing disappointment at the way things have turned out, in spite of Jesus' higher vision of them, his life's labor on their behalf. In the case of Lazarus, Jesus intervenes, bringing his friend back to life. But in the other two, he's more like us, suffering things that he cannot or will not change. He laments over a city that has killed people like him before and seems bent on doing it again. On the night of his arrest, he watches the police push Judas aside. Then he stops his friends from trying to save him by force. No more of this, he says, when one of them pulls out a sword and cuts off a trooper's ear. …